One thing that I think really puzzles knitters who've made cuff-down socks about toe-up sock knitting is how to turn the heel. So many of us are used to the heel flap and gusset style of heel, and while that certainly is possible to do from the toe-up, just thinking about it can make your brain go a little fuzzy.
But there's another style of heel that is a lot easier to work from the toe up (and that's great for cuff-down socks, too), and that's the short row heel.
A short row heel typically begins with working all but the last stitch of the row, then doing a wrap and turn and working back all but the last stitch of the row. Rows get progressively shorter until you're leaving just a few stitches unworked in the center (this is the heel cup) and then you start working out again, making each row longer until you've worked all the stitches in the row again.
From here you just join back to the leg stitches and work as before in whatever pattern was being used on the foot or leg, depending on which direction you're working. The heel just kind of sticks out the side of the sock and doesn't interrupt any patterning on the rest of the sock, making it a perfect choice for socks worked in any direction that have a complex pattern.
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